While I am not a religious man, I will keep you and Jonelle in my thoughts and prayers. I know how hard of a struggle this situation is for you, and as one who lost his partner of 6 years to brain cancer, I share the grief, pain, and suffering that you must be going through right now.

Please, keep us posted as to her condition, what the doctors say, and if there is anything at all that we can do to make this time any easier on you, please, let us know.

Keeping you in my heart!

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James_________________"Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatibl

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Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:22 am Post subject:

Istagi,
We don't know each other, but my heart goes out for you and your wife. I've seen people survive much worse then what you are describing, so I feel confident saying "it will get better and she will recover 100%".

G'luck & prayers for you both.
-Dale_________________Without falling, there is no fear of heights.
Without nearly drowning, there is no fear of water.
Without crashing, there is no fear of speed.
Without trying, there is never fear.

Thanks for sharing good news, Istagi! I hope everything will go as smooth as possible._________________"The piano keys
Are black and white
But they sound like a million colours in your mind"
(from Spider's Web by Katie Melua)
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But I was thinking... maybe Jonette *can* accompany you to the JW concert?
If the operation is in early August, with only one night in hospital; add a month of recuperation time... maybe she could go.
After all, you're not traveling to some place in the middle of nowhere, but to another large city that has such things as doctors and hospitals in case an emergency happens.

Even if it is *your* dream to attend the concert and not hers; originally she was planning to go with you.
Maybe it would get her mind off of things for a little bit?

I know nothing about breast cancer and the treatments involved, so just in case (as is likely) that I'm talking out of my a$$, I want to apologize if I'm being insensitive and/or just plain stupid._________________"Welcome to the paranoia club; cheapest fees in the universe and membership lasts forever."
- Peter F. Hamilton, The Evolutionary Void

Jonette goes in for surgery on Sept 5th. she is wavering between single or double mastectomy. I will support whatever decision she will make. Recovery will take at least 2 weeks. I will be there for her to make sure she rests but also make sure she gets out of the house a bit. I am thinking of short walks, picnic lunches, drives in the mountains, maybe a movie or two, that kind of stuff.

Chemo will probably start in November we will not know what kind or for how long till it is determined if and how far the cancer has spread in her lymph nodes, only surgery can determine that. I pray that it has not spread. The ductile cancer is relatively low risk but the lobular tumor is extremely suspect.

The lobular cancer is Her2nu active, that was until recently an almost certain death sentence but there is a gene therapy that is designed to target cancer that is her2nu positive. all 3 tumors are hormone positive so those are good things._________________I am Lakota! Whatever does not kill me. Makes a funny story!